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Richard Hamming has a story where he was shocked/appalled that some folks wanted to include him on a paper after he suggested using Linear Regression in an obvi
by blululu 4y ago
Richard Hamming has a story where he was shocked/appalled that some folks wanted to include him on a paper after he suggested using Linear Regression in an obvious application of linear regression. The upshot is, if it were obvious it would have been done already. So many times people have done everything they can to avoid using a matrix decomposition or a proper filter.
- cushychicken 4y agoA lot of expertise is really: 1. Knowing when to use the right tool, and 2. Being in the right place at the right time to offer the insight. What’s obvious to the expert is frequently intractable to the outsider. In many cases, I wouldn’t call it so much “avoidance” as “not knowing the solution exists at all”.